SPACE MONKEY BBS :: NODE 07

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NODE 07 / 16 USERS ONLINE 143 CALLS TODAY 2,847 NEW FILES 03 LAST NEW USER d4rk_av3ng3r RUNNING SINCE 1994

📡 MESSAGE OF THE DAY05/05/26

/// TRANSMISSION INCOMING ///

We explore… and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias…
and you call us criminals.

— The Mentor, January 8, 1986 · Phrack Magazine Vol.1 Issue 7

MAIN MENU :: SPACE MONKEY BBS

Main Menu Command [?=Help]:

SYSTEM INFORMATIONRENEGADE BBS v10.5 / Void Linux

SYSTEM NAME

SPACE MONKEY BBS

LOCATION

St. Louis, MO — NODE 314

SYSOP HANDLE

MenTor_SM

ACCESS LINES

16 nodes / 28.8k–1Mb

FOUNDED

1994

AFFILIATED

cDc · Mistigris · ACiD

YOUR NODE

07 / ANONYMOUS ACCESS

MAX SESSION

UNLIMITED

This system operates under the principle that curiosity is not a crime.
All information freely available. All signals welcome. Trade ratio: 1:1.

FILE BASE :: /garbage [AREA 51 — PUBLIC]143 files · 2.3GB free

Sort: [N]ame [S]ize [D]ate | [U]pload [D]ownload | [Q]uit to menu

#	Filename	Size	Date	Description
01	RESUME.HTM	42k	05/05/26	Operator dossier — credentials, ops, projects
02	RINGTONES/	[DIR]	04/12/26	Tones for the mobile communicator
03	DJ_TRES_PERISHABLE/	[DIR]	03/08/26	DJ Tres :: Perishable Thoughts [FULL LP]
04	THE_MONADS/	[DIR]	03/08/26	The Monads :: Full discography archive
05	TableMountain.jpg	18.2M	02/14/26	[PIC] Table Mountain South Africa — classified location
06	GARBAGE/	[DIR]	01/01/94	Main /garbage index — video clips & artifacts

——— SECTOR 7G :: ANOMALOUS DATA DETECTED ————————————

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??	████████████████████.███	??k	??/??/??	CRC MISMATCH — FILE CORRUPTED — DO NOT EXECUTE
??	N̵U̜L̞L̠.̡E̟X̵E̗	??M	??/??/??	▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
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File Base Command [D/U/S/Q]:

MESSAGE BOARDS :: #philosophers [+nsm]BitchX 1.1-final / EFnet

*** BitchX 1.1-final — for a better tomorrow ***
*** Connecting to irc.efnet.net (6667)…
*** Now talking in #philosophers
*** Topic: "My crime is that of curiosity."
*** Set by TheMentor on 08 Jan 1986

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[22:14] *** TheMentor has joined #philosophers

[22:14] <TheMentor> Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.

[22:14] <TheMentor> "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal"

[22:14] <TheMentor> Damn kids. They're all alike.

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[22:15] <TheMentor> I am a hacker, enter my world…

[22:16] <TheMentor> Mine is a world that begins with school… I'm smarter than most of the other kids,

[22:16] <TheMentor> this crap they teach us bores me…

[22:16] *** Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

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[22:22] <TheMentor> I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool.

[22:22] <TheMentor> It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up.

[22:22] <TheMentor> Not because it doesn't like me…

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

[22:28] <TheMentor> And then it happened… a door opened to a world…

[22:28] <TheMentor> rushing through the phone line, an electronic pulse is sent out…

[22:28] <TheMentor> "This is it… this is where I belong…"

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

[22:35] <TheMentor> This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.

[22:35] <TheMentor> We explore… and you call us criminals.

[22:35] <TheMentor> We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals.

[22:36] <TheMentor> We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias…

[22:36] <TheMentor> and you call us criminals.

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

[22:40] <TheMentor> I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.

[22:40] <TheMentor> You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all… after all, we're all alike.

[22:41] *** TheMentor sets topic to: "+++The Mentor+++ Jan 8 1986"

[22:41] *** TheMentor has left #philosophers (connection reset by peer)

Source: Phrack Magazine · phrack.org/issues/7/3.html

Msg Board [R]ead [W]rite [Q]uit:

THE MATRIX LORE VAULT :: DIGITAL METAPHYSICS

——— CLASSIFIED :: READING LIST & LORE ————————————————

// NEUROMANCER (WILLIAM GIBSON, 1984)

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Gibson coined "cyberspace" two years before this novel. A consensual hallucination
experienced daily by billions. Case jacks into the matrix. Molly runs chrome fingernails.
Wintermute calls from a pay phone. The Tessier-Ashpool ice shatters.
Cyberspace: a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer.

// SNOW CRASH (NEAL STEPHENSON, 1992)

Hiro Protagonist: hacker, sword fighter, last of the freelance pizza delivery drivers.
The Metaverse — coined here, long before it was co-opted.
Y.T. surfs the highway behind mafia pizza trucks on a skateboard with a dentata.
Language as a virus. The nam-shub of Enki. Code as a weaponized ancient meme.
Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong. Raven's nukes strapped to a motorcycle. Juanita knows.

// THE MATRIX (WACHOWSKIS, 1999)

Thomas Anderson types "Wake up, Neo…" into a terminal at 2AM.
The green rain of symbols — each column a person, a building, a thought.
"There is no spoon." The construct is a blank loading program.
Zion's last dock. "Mr. Anderson…" "My name is Neo."
The digital rain you are watching right now is borrowed from this film.

// IRC :: mIRC / BITCHX AESTHETIC

Before Discord. Before Slack. Before everything: Internet Relay Chat.
#hackers on EFnet. #warez on DALnet. DCC sends flying at 28.8k.
mIRC with a custom theme: colors 3 and 10. /ctcp ping. /whois.
BitchX — the client that made irc feel like a weapon.
The original real-time internet. Still running. Still free. Still port 6667.

// CAP'N CRUNCH (JOHN DRAPER, 1972)

A toy whistle in a cereal box emitted exactly 2600 Hz — AT&T's trunk-idle tone.
One whistle. Every long-distance call in America, free.
Draper taught Wozniak. Woz taught Jobs. They built blue boxes together in a dorm.
The counterculture became Silicon Valley. The phreakers became billionaires.
2600 Magazine still publishes. The number means something.

——— READY PLAYER ONE (ERNEST CLINE, 2011) —————————————————

The OASIS: a virtual universe where humanity escapes a dying world to grind exp.
Wade Watts / Parzival hunts the Easter Egg of the dead god Halliday.
Every 80s reference you remember, weaponized into a scavenger hunt.
The IOI corporation wants control. They always do.
Anorak's Almanac. The Tomb of Horrors. Zork. Joust. The Copper Key.

Lore Vault [N]ext [P]rev [Q]uit:

WHO'S ONLINE :: SYSOP PROFILE1 SYSOP ACTIVE

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|  \/  | __|  \/  |
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<< SYSOP ACCESS >>

HANDLE

MenTor_SM

REAL NAME

Jeremy Yowell

LOCATION

St. Louis, MO

LEVEL

SYSOP / LEVEL 99

STATUS

● ONLINE RIGHT NOW

SPECIALTIES

BUILDERAI OPS RPG DEVPHP NODE.JSPYTHON VOICE UICOMFYUI

ACTIVE PROJECTS

EO — Cyberpunk narrative RPG [Phaser 3 / JavaScript]
lotgd.money — Market simulation RPG [PHP / MySQL]
Chore Pets — Voice task gamification [Alexa SDK / Node.js]
ImageGen — Local AI image pipeline [ComfyUI / Python]

[D] DOWNLOAD RESUME.HTM [E] EMAIL SYSOP

Profile [D]ownload [E]mail [Q]uit:

USERS ONLINE :: NODE ACTIVITY

Node	Handle	Location	Activity	Time
07	ANON_USER	—	Browsing File Base	00:03:14
01	MenTor_SM	St. Louis MO	SYSOP :: Monitoring	∞
03	ph34r_th3_r34p3r	—	Reading #philosophers	01:22:07
05	d4rk_av3ng3r	Bulgaria	Uploading to Warez	00:44:51
09	gl1tch_w1tch	NYC	Door Game :: TradeWars	02:11:33
12	c4pn_crunch	San Jose CA	Matrix Lore Vault	00:07:42

DOOR GAMES :: EXTERNAL PROGRAMS6 DOORS

Select a door to launch. Time limit: NONE. Node drop-protection enabled.

EO :: ENCRYPTED OPERATIONS [BETA]

Cyberpunk narrative RPG. Built on Phaser 3. Hack the mainframe. Find the signal.

LOTGD.MONEY [LIVE]

Market simulation RPG. PHP/MySQL. Fight in the markets. Accumulate capital.

CHORE PETS [VOICE-ENABLED]

Voice-driven task gamification via Alexa SDK. Your household chores are now a game.

LEGEND OF THE RED DRAGON [CLASSIC BBS]

Fantasy RPG. Slay the dragon. Seduce the barmaid. The original BBS door game.

TRADEWARS 2002 [8 ACTIVE]

Space trading game. Colonize sectors. Destroy enemies. Build an empire from nothing.

██████████████ [CLASSIFIED]

ACCESS DENIED :: LEVEL 99 CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Door [1–6] [Q]uit:

W4R3Z :: UND3RGR0UND [3DUC4T10N4L S1MUL4T10N]ELITE

⚠ SIMULATION ONLY — historical documentation of 1990s scene aesthetics ⚠

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║  ONKEY-SM / SPACE MONKEY BBS  ::  PACKS: 001  ::  DATE: 05/05/94         ║
║  PRESENTS: [FREEWARE] SPACE MONKEY BBS v3.14 :: 0 DISKS :: NO CRACK NEEDED ║
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║ NOTES: This is a simulation of 1990s warez scene NFO aesthetics for artistic  ║
║ and historical documentation. The warez scene gave us NFO files, ISO format,  ║
║ scene rules, and an underground economy that predated the modern internet.    ║
║ NFO files were introduced by The Humble Guys (THG) in 1990. RAZOR 1911,      ║
║ founded 1985, is the oldest continuously active release group. Respect.       ║
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ GREETS: ACiD Productions · iCE · Mistigris · Cult of the Dead Cow · L0pht        ║
║         Legion of Doom · Masters of Deception · The Humble Guys · RAZOR 1911  ║
║         CLASS · Fairlight · Paradox · DEViANCE · SKIDROW · Chaos Computer Club ║
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║  [STL] SPACE MONKEY BBS  ::  314-867-5MNK  ::  NODE 07 OF 16               ║
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Warez [L]ist [Q]uit:

GOODBYE :: DROPPING CARRIERNODE 07 :: DISCONNECTING

> HANGUP COMMAND RECEIVED — CARRIER DROP IN PROGRESS…

► SPACE_MONKEY.MP4NODE 07 :: STREAMING

Goodbye — thanks for calling SPACE MONKEY BBS

// VIEW :: DESIGN PROMPT (designprompts.dev style)

Concept: The entire website renders as a 1994 Bulletin Board System (BBS) session. User arrives via animated modem handshake sequence — busy signals, retries, CONNECT 28800, PPP negotiation — before the BBS interface fades in over a Matrix rain canvas background.

Aesthetic DNA: ACiD Productions ANSI art (1990–2000) · Renegade BBS software UI · BitchX/mIRC IRC client color themes · CP437 box-drawing characters · phosphor green (#00FF41) on void black (#000) · The Hacker's Manifesto (Phrack #7, 1986) · warez scene NFO files · The Matrix digital rain (katakana + ASCII) · Neuromancer · Snow Crash · Cap'n Crunch phreaking lore.

Structure: Modem boot → BBS welcome screen → menu-driven sections (file base with directory listings + corrupted sector simulation, IRC-formatted message boards, cyberpunk lore vault, sysop profile + resume, door games, NFO simulation) → status ticker.

Tech: Vanilla JS canvas Matrix rain · CSS scanlines · phosphor glow text-shadow · CSS glitch keyframes for corrupted files · Share Tech Mono font · pure HTML/CSS/JS, zero dependencies.